QUOTE | “We try to really immerse players as much as possible into the intimacies of the character and that’s why we have certain scenes with very mundane gameplay...” - Quantic Dream COO Guillaume de Fondaumière shares one of the studio’s secrets to emotional immersion.

QUOTE | “With their friendship and respect for each other still very much intact, Watsham and Hargrove will continue developing videogames under the names of their new companies: Atooi and Infitizmo” - Renegade Kid announces its own demise as the Mutant Mudds studio’s two co-founders have decided to go their separate ways.

QUOTE | “It’s really hard to talk about these games. You have to be tasteful, you have to think three times about every aspect. It’s like walking through a minefield. A mistake could cost them a lot.” - 11 bit Studios publishing director Paweł Feldman explains why the This War of Mine company has an edge on competition like EA when it comes to signing “meaningful games” like Papers Please or Life is Strange.

STAT | £16.5 million - The amount of money Lloyds Development Capital invested in Team17. Once synonymous with its Worms franchise, Team17 is expanding its publishing business, and will be releasing Playtonic’s Yooka-Laylee and Steamroller Studios’ Deadwood: The Forgotten Curse.

QUOTE | “Perhaps GameFront is a dinosaur and not needed. But we want to believe that there is still a community of gamers out there, who want an open gaming site, that embodies DRM free principles and allows anyone to create and share content they are working on, without restriction.” - A ModDB statement on the site’s acquisition of GameFront, which it plans to relaunch.